About This File
CFS Macro--USS Brooklyn - Ohiggins. USS Brooklyn (CL-40) was a light cruiser, the lead ship of her class of seven, and the third United States Navy ship to bear its name. Commissioned in 1937, she served in the Atlantic during World War II, as a convoy escort and as fire support for amphibious landings of Operation Torch (French North-Africa), Sicily, Anzio, and southern France. There are four API files: Brooklyn-w, O'Higgins-w (with wake), and Brooklyn-nw, and O'Higgins-nw (withouth wake). By Edmundo Abad.